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post your 3 favourite books( + a comment?)
let the others guess
age, social background, location

>> No.1336526

Svejk, Mishnah Torah, Wojzek, Mein Kampf

>> No.1336531

Pride & Prejudice
Ender's Game
The Picture of Dorian Grey

>> No.1336534

>>1336531
22, upper middle, US

>> No.1336537

>>1336531
20
female
Briatain
lower middle class

>> No.1336541

Infinite Jest, King Lear, The Sound and the Fury

>> No.1336545

inb4Dostoyevsky.
Atlas Shrugged
The Fountainhead
The Virtue of Selfishness
18, upper class parents, Northeast USA

>> No.1336548

The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand (I thought the philosophy was interesting)

The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins (enjoyed the psychological implications in it and the dystopian setting)

1984 - George Orwell (good for making references to it in conversation, like the dystopian setting)

>> No.1336551

>>1336541
19, macfag, cosmopolite

>> No.1336556

The Stranger by Camus
Labyrinths by Borges
The Great Gatsby by Fitzgerald

>> No.1336554

>>1336551

20, thank you. But +1 internet to you.

>> No.1336560

>>1336551


Wait shit you don't know me, do you?

>> No.1336563

Survivor by Palahniuk
A Song of Ice and Fire (it's a series, but oh well) by GRRM
Heart of Darkness by Conrad

>> No.1336565

The Stranger by Camus
Labyrinths by Borges
The Great Gatsby by Fitzgerald

>> No.1336570

1984
Herr Keuner stories and plays by Bert Brecht
Borges' History of Infamy, Ficciones, Endless Library etc etc for doing it right.
Kafka for showing how all human thought in high vacuum is shit
Twilight for deeply exploring all the eternal topics
Nietzsche for epic mega ultra trolling

>> No.1336586

>>1336565
U.S.A!
U.S.A!
U.S.A!
>>1336563
25, europe or the colonies, middle class

>> No.1336587

I hope you don't mind, but I'd rather name authors than books:

Banana Yoshimoto
Shan Sa
Hong Ying

>> No.1336603

>>1336587
20s s.f. weeabo

>> No.1336605

7 types of Ambiguity
the perks of being a wallflower
The Name of the Rose

tough to pick just 3

>> No.1336608

>>1336586
Hmm, close. Slightly younger and I don't think I qualify as being middle class anymore, though that's how I grew up.

You're right about the colonies, though what you suggested covers like 90% of people on 4chan.

>> No.1336613

>>1336570

You are a white person who is 17 and a half in the upper middle class.

>> No.1336615

>>1336605
21, US, F

>> No.1336618

>>1336615
figured perks would lower the age bracket quite a bit
but I can consider a book I read as an angsty teen one of my favorites
other 2 correct

>> No.1336620

boring
You take my asl and guess the rest
23, classy femme, NY

>> No.1336621 [DELETED] 

Ulysses
Anna Karenina
The Brothers Karamazov

>> No.1336623

>>1336586
Thankfully not!
I'm from the United Kingdom (alright, not much better), working class and M in case anyone was wondering.

>> No.1336630

yer all rough ruralfags

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1336633

>book
The Trial
Brothers Karamazov
Ada or Ador

>comment
i love you all but i just want a hug irl : |

>> No.1336638 [DELETED] 

>>1336633

18
scotland
(lower?) middle class

>> No.1336658

>>1336638
i think i went from lower to upper but dont feel the difference. im defo more lethargic than punk always.

>> No.1336660 [DELETED] 

>>1336658

shut up

>> No.1336668

>>1336660
u mad?

>> No.1336669

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter - Carson McCullers Richard III - Mr. Billiam Shakesbeard
Mil Años de Soledad - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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1336674

>>1336669
>Mil Años de Soledad - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
>Mil Años de Soledad

>> No.1336678

>>1336674
perhaps I spent much more time being lonely than most? lol.
fuck my spanish...fail

>> No.1336683

>>1336678
dont worry i still love you. would you recommend me the book?

>> No.1336690

>>1336683
Absolutely! At times it's quite difficult to keep track of the characters - there are several identically named Buendias - but as long as you consult the family tree at the beginning of the book every now and then, you'll be fine. It's really a stunning example of magical realism.

>> No.1336710

>>1336524
Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace, One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez and The Stranger - Albert Camus

>> No.1336716

>>1336710
18-20
(lower) middle class
USA

>> No.1336718

>>1336716
22, Lower Middle, Scotland
1/3 ain't bad.

>> No.1336721

Moby Dick
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
The Illuminatus! trilogy

>> No.1336723

>>1336718
you've even told me you're from edinburgh or glasgow before lol, i forgot.

but y u into that DFW yankee trash, boy!?

>> No.1336739

>>1336723
From Edinburgh... well Leith, but shh, it's still Edinburgh.
Also, I like the Yankee trash because... I just generally like him, maybe because he's a fellow tennis fan.

>> No.1336757

A Prayer for Owen Meany
Jealousy
Unbearable Lightness of Being

>> No.1336768

100 Years of Solitude
The Great Gatsby
The Sound and the Fury

Good luck anons.

>> No.1336769

The Bell Jar
The Story of the Eye
The Shadow of the Wind

18-22 upper-middle for everyone here, unless something very distinctive appears in their list. Brit/US dependent on quality (quality goes to brits)

>>1336721
19 lower-middle weed smoking American male

>> No.1336784

The Holy Bible: King James Edition
Satanic Bible - Anton LeVay
Simon's Necronomicon

>> No.1336785

The Castle
Confessions-rousseau
The Dictionary

>> No.1336789

The Double (Saramago) - jesus fkn christ, best book ever
Ham on rye
East of Eden

>> No.1336847

seems to be more listing than guessing.

>> No.1336868

I love how the oldest anyone has guessed has been 25
I'm not ancient by any means, but that makes me feel old

>> No.1336968

>>1336769
>The Bell Jar
either hipster sheep or midwest christfag+butthurt
>The Story of the Eye
severe ADHD-chantard, or gurl in college
~20 yo angsty loner wanker netizen
or
~20 yo angsty us bitch in the humanities

>> No.1336978

>>1336847
too few cues.
they do not even care to explain why they like it all.

>> No.1336984

Infinite Jest, Leaves of Grass, Molloy

>> No.1337011

Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
Revelation Space - Alastair Reynolds
Dune - Frank Herbert

>> No.1337030

grendel - likable protagonist. hrothgar is hitler, grendel is a nietzschean playboy artist butchered. the dragon is a bourgeois bore, butchered too.
crime and punishment - yuoo cannot into übermensch
red cavalry - a bunch of bolsheviks ride through 1920s poland. it has rape and murder, and most importantly, progressive messianic fervour. heil lenin! down with szlachtas! freedom for wage slaves! hide your daughters!

>> No.1337058

>>1337011
~15, middle middle, USA

>> No.1337077

blood meridian
factotum
a hero of our time

>> No.1337083

Nikolai Gogol - Dead Souls
Bram Stoker - Dracula
T.H. White - The Once And Future King

Go.

>> No.1337091

The Things they carried, 1984, When Engulfed in flames

>> No.1337093

>>1336789

definitely male, early 20s, my guess european

>> No.1337100

The Picture of Dorian Gray
I, Lucifer
The Master and Margarita

>> No.1337104

The Master and Margarita

Norwegian Wood

Ficciones

>> No.1337106

>>1336531
Sacrilege... it's Dorian GRAY, you heathen!

>> No.1337115

>>1337077
>blood meridian
dk. is it fantasy shitlit? technical university, male.
>factotum
whores, booze and bohemianism. western 1960s middle class counter culture
>a hero of our time
stealing hoes and horses, being an arse. russian 1830s upper class twit counter culture
a Russian white collar student?

>>1337083
>Nikolai Gogol - Dead Souls
1830s satire on philistines. funny. a likable person. persumably educated or related to intelligentsia.
>Bram Stoker - Dracula
too slow paced for a kiddo. gothic? anti-anne-rice+twilight? tells you nothing
>T.H. White - The Once And Future King
dk. sounds like something you can schlick to. exclusive to anglo-saxon nations.

either recent (>4th generation) immigrant to the US or someone related to clerks elsewhere in the British Commonwealth.

>> No.1337123

>>1337104

sounds like me. 22 working class male canada?

>> No.1337129

Blood Meridian
The Age of Innocence
Winesburg, Ohio

>> No.1337130

Infinite Jest
Red Mars
Cryptonomicon

>> No.1337132

>>1337100
>The Picture of Dorian Gray
it's about booze and it is decadent. female or so hunting bohemian hoes
>I, Lucifer
sounds like above. you must be anglophile or english. never heared of that stuff
>The Master and Margarita
a satire on bolsheviks by a relative of a significant tsar-era marxist-turnt-moral philosopher. could be an eastern european conservative or some related to clerics but alltogether it makes you sound like a western hipster.
>>1337104
>The Master and Margarita
russian.
>Norwegian Wood
fashionable.
>Ficciones
deep.
deep and fashionable middle class Russian student.

>> No.1337137

The Defense
The Fall
Labyrinths

eh

>> No.1337144

>>1336563

14, male, middle class

>> No.1337146

Jack London
Umberto Eco
Arthur Conan Doyle

>> No.1337152

Thou Linus commathius thy Witcher and thy Wardref

>> No.1337156

Might is Right (Ragnar Redbeard)
The 120 Days of Sodom
Thus Spake Zarathustra
go, take a guess

>> No.1337162

Slaughterhouse-Five
Waiting for Godot
Breakfast of Champions

>> No.1337163

The Great Gatsby, War and Peace and Catch-22.

>>1337083
You are 22 year old middle class citizen from Southern Ireland.

>> No.1337174

2666 - Roberto Bolaño
A Personal Matter - Kenzaburo Oe
The Stranger - Albert Camus

I love me some Bolaño.
Oh joy.

>> No.1337175

>>1337162
as leftwing as US-Americans get. Vonnegut would be too blunt for Brits. Godot, and absurdism in general, is beat-chic which, again, pinpoints you as a progressive American or as someone imitating them.

>> No.1337177

The Count of Monte Cristo
The Mysterious Stranger
Crime and Punishment

>> No.1337180

The Stranger (Albert Camus)
Candide (Voltaire)
Ham on Rye (Charles Bukowski)

Go mad.

>> No.1337181

>>1337175
not too shabby!

>> No.1337185
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>>1337152
THE LION THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE?

>> No.1337202

>>1337175
>Godot, and absurdism in general, is beat-chic which, again, pinpoints you as a progressive American or as someone imitating them

wat. I love Beckett and the theater of the absurd, and can't stand progressive politics. Anyway,

The Trial - Kafka
A Short History of Decay - Cioran
Endgame - Beckett / Patriotism - Mishima

>> No.1337213

Here's a tough one!
Snow Crash~Stephenson
Perks of Being a Wallflower~Chbosky
Pygmy~Palahniuk

>> No.1337226

>>1337213
A 19 year old male living somewhere in the North Eastern U.S. Attending college and rather well off. Visits /mu/.

>> No.1337228

>>1337202
that was a case of Beckett + Vonnegut
coupled with Kafka it would mean you're a neolib
but
>Cioran
>Mishima
you got fascists (nietzscheans,vitalists, whatever)
I'd guess you are from Eastern Europe, Northern Ireland or from Israel. Americans lack the bureaucracy to love Kafka. A petty bourgeois, of course, or (someone related to) clerk(s).
...and slightly more mature than the average user of the board.

>> No.1337237

1984
Prometheus Rising
One Hundred Years of Solitude

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>>1337146

>> No.1337241

>>1337228
I am from America, but the petty bourgeois part is true.

>> No.1337245

Cat's Cradle
Invisible Man
Words for Empty and Words for Full

>> No.1337257

>>1337241
got a lawyer in the family?
else you will have to explain what you found in romanian vitalism and habsburg empire-inspired bureaucratic horror. and what about the age?

>> No.1337259

>>1337228
>Americans lack the bureaucracy to love Kafka.

There is bureaucracy a plenty in America.
Who are you to say that people are incapable of a feeling towards a piece of literature simply because of their location?
I can smell you from here. I bet you use the phrase "per se"

>> No.1337261

Hopscotch
The Death of Artemio Cruz
The Invention of Morel

Easy.

>> No.1337272

A Lesson Before Dying: Ernest J. Gaines
Daniel Deronda: George Elliot (aka Mary Anne Evans)
Invisible Monsters: Chuck Pahlaniuk

>> No.1337274

>>1337259
>There is bureaucracy a plenty in America.
and here i was just about to move.
i thought the land of the free can only be kafkaesque and absurd to towelheaded muslims.

>> No.1337284

>>1337257
I do have a lawyer in the family, my uncle. A relative by marriage, though. Age: 21

And I like Kafka for his writing style more than his bureaucratic horror. I've never found anyone else whose writing clicked with me the way his does. We're on the same wavelength or something.

>> No.1337288

Of Human Bondage
Catch-22
Brave New World

I'm going to take a guess and say most people are 18-23, male and judging by this time of night: American

>> No.1337298

>>1337288
>night
you cannot be british
a foreigner might jump for BNW, yet Catch22 plays on American stereotypes; of human bondage means you grew up speaking English.

>> No.1337300

>>1337298

I'm English born and raised. It's 3.38 here in London.

>> No.1337433

>>1337137
no takers?

>> No.1337484

The War of the Worlds by HG Wells
Beauty and Sadness by Yasunari Kawabata
The Last Unicorn by Peter S Beagle

>> No.1337672

>>1336603
s.f. for San Francisco? Way off!

Besides, you don't seem to know that Shan Sa and Hong Ying are both Chinese, not Japanese.

>Weaboo: A person who's totally obsessed with Japanese culture; Wapanese; Wanna be Japanese.

>> No.1338045

Is that a Man by Primo Levi
One Day in the Life of Ivan Dennisovich by Solzhenytsin
Secret History of the Mongols

>> No.1338055

The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller

>> No.1338059

>>1337137
17, middle class, probably a suburb in the US

>> No.1338060

>>1338045
dude, radical

if this is a man is a freakin' great book, i love that shit. i don't give a shit about any of that other stuff, but i'll guess 22, midwest, i don't know what is meant by social background

>> No.1338063

Brideshead Revisited
Heart of Darkness
On Revolution (Hannah Arendt)

>> No.1338083

No Country for Old Men
Declare
Winter's Bone

>> No.1338096

David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis
Keep the Aspidistra Flying by George Orwell

>> No.1338135

Nausea
The Myth of Sysiphys(?)
Animal Farm

>> No.1338144

A Clockwork Orange
Colour Out of Space
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

>> No.1338146

>>1338144

Let me clarify why I like each.

A Clockwork Orange - Read because of the movie, really enjoyed it for the narrative style, though hard to read at times.

The Colour Out of Space - I love almost anything Lovecraft, this just being one of my personal favorites of his. I love the idea of the incomprehensible entity.

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - I just really enjoy the character of Holmes.

>> No.1338181

>>1338063
>Brideshead Revisited
catholic? englishman? upperclass? christian?
>Heart of Darkness
we all like adventures
>On Revolution (Hannah Arendt)
moralist + constitutionalist

>> No.1338182

>>1338135
German pupil i would presume

>> No.1338185

>>1338063
>On Revolution (Hannah Arendt)
in "reflections on little rock" she claimed US negroes were too stupid to vote, in her Eichmann she banalised and misrepresented well-thought-out Nazi flavour of Kantianism in order to save Kant

>> No.1338187

>>1338185
*what does she claim in "on revolution"?
another thing just stroke my mind - she blamed the manners of eastern jews for the rise of antisemitism in germany

>> No.1338188

This could be fun.

Memnoch the Devil
Redemption Ark
Pandora

>> No.1338199

The Wind from the Mountains by Trygve Gulbranssen
The Fountainhead by WE DO NOT SPEAK ITS NAME
Some ancient, memoir-esque detailing of the lives of 'jackass' penguins that personified them extraordinarily.

>> No.1338202

>>1338199
Also, just to add a little: I think BNW is FAR superior to 1984. In fact, I hate Orwell.

>> No.1338205

eurobump

>> No.1338207

>>1338202
does not compute. if you like ayn rand you must also praise ford and be pissed about any big brother

>> No.1338213

>>1338207
That statement calls for a System Update on your part, my good cyber-sir. I'm into some heavy petting with Rand, certainly, but I've no allegiance to Ford and no suspicions over Big Brother. I stopped trusting the government in elementary school. There is no suspicion, only quietly accepted knowledge.

>> No.1338222

>>1338213
but BNW is an appeal against comsumerism (id est the orgy porgy). It's an appeal for "a state" to throttle public hedonism, it is an appeal for liberal education while 1984 is an attack against any kind of authority. She who shall not be called by name couldn't have cared less about all the dumb deltas and gammas in happy new world being a strict individualist. the books were not burnt in huxley's phantasy, it was just that nobody touched them which for some reason was ought to be wrong.

>> No.1338227

1. Tres Tristres Tigres - Guillermo Cabrera Infante
2. The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
3. Quel Beau Dimanche - Jorge Semprun

yeah, bitches, don't call me pretentious only because I don't spam lit with my favorite books all the time and you have no idea what they are about.

>> No.1338241

Umberto Eco - Il pendolo di Focault
Vladimir Nabokov - The Gift
Franza Kafka - der Prozess

who am i?

>> No.1338264

>>1338241
someone who mistakes a textbook on semiotics with good literature

>> No.1338880

>>1338241
not a rUSSKA else you would have written PODAROK not the grift

>> No.1338884

>>1338227
> I don't spam lit with my favorite books all the time and you have no idea what they are about
are they not good enough? y dontya?

>> No.1338890

>>1336605
son/daughter of a cleric

>> No.1338895

The Count of Monte Cristo
David Copperfield
A Confederacy of Dunces

Come at me, bros.

>> No.1338904

Lord of the Flies
Ender's Game
The Star's My Destination

>> No.1338909

>>1338884
well, the general economics of 4chan are like this:
to get a successful thread going (meaning high count of posts and maybe even some actual discussion), the topic must be well known and the premise has to be provocative (meaning that people will disagree, only way to get discussion going).
The more reknown a topic is, the more response it will get.

This even goes for troll-threads.


I used to get threads going that would be a bit more diverse than the usual, but I gave up on that after a while.

>> No.1338918

Céline - Journey to the End of the Night
Steinbeck - East of Eden
Kundera - The Unbearable Lightness of Being

>> No.1338927

>>1338918
some cranky bitchhunter like the rest of /lit/
you might have been a bitch/trap but celine sells you off

>> No.1338930

>>1338904
16, lives in a suburb, United States

>> No.1338933

>>1338918
>Kundera - The Unbearable Lightness of Being
y?

>> No.1338941

>>1338909
well, post a thread about how your peruvian fascist is x times better than Ayn Rand. i lobbied for Olesha's Envy and i daresay with success

>> No.1338944

Polybius' Histories.
Invisible Cities.
The Illustrated Man.

>> No.1338953

>>1338933
It's a novel but focuses mainly onn the narrator's and characters' perceptions of time, destiny, fate, love, relationships, and failure. Instead of a typical "A did this, B did this, C did this" style plot, the book is mainly musings and ideas.

Unbearable Lightness of Being was terrifically sad to me. No one in the book is every really, totally happy, and the implication is that as human beings we shouldn't be upset by that. For many of the characters, existence is a heavy burden, or else a great balloon that carries you off into nothing (thus the "unbearable lightness of being").

If you get a chance to read it, please do. You'll find it heartbreaking but won't be able to get it out of your head for a long time.

>> No.1338958

>>1338930

actually: 21, i did grow up in suburbs, and yes I'm american

>> No.1338963

Infinite Jest
Crime and Punishment
Hamlet

>> No.1338964

To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Dresden File series - Jim Butcher (Fuck you, it's entertaining as hell)
Gates of Fire - Steven Pressfield

>> No.1338967

>>1338958
Oh, ok. What I meant to say was "hasn't read a book since he was 16, lives in a suburb with his parents, United States"

>> No.1338975

>>1338953
heartbreaking? no. im russian and my uncle was one of the cruel ones behind the invasion of Reichsprotektorat Boehmen '68. i'm asking since boys like the nietzschean Mythos der Ewigen Widerkehr and grils fall for something im not fated to understand. the existentialist blah blah suggests you're a boy with no sympathy for any of the characters but with the conviction it would help you 2 get laid amirite?

>> No.1338986

>>1338964
>To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
die, LENINIST
if national prejudice is problem how do we solve it?

>> No.1338987

>>1338967

ooo, getting farther away...how sad. i didn't even read stars or enders game till I was 19.

>> No.1338993

>>1338963
rural 17 year old male wannabe hipster
USA or any of it's cultural colonies

>> No.1338995

>>1338986
If I knew I'd send a letter to America, they are still having problems with that I hear.

>> No.1339002

>>1338995
2kill1mockingbird
is ddecisively antidemocratic
where r u from?

>> No.1339009
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The Steel Remains
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
The Stars My Destination

>> No.1339010

>>1339002
Suppose that's one way of putting it, Sweden. First read To Kill A Mockingbird when I went to highschool in England.

>> No.1339018

>>1338188

15, lower middle class, american. thinks twilight sucks because you liked anne rice before twilight came out, semi gothic although you probably don't admit it, loner

>> No.1339020

>>1338975
What, as a boy, are you not fated to understand? Heartbreak? Milan Kundera was a man - I think it's safe to say that men can understand the ideas in the novel as well as women.

On a side note, is it true that Russian soldiers were forced to remain celibate while in the service? I didn't get the part where beautiful Czech women were parading around in miniskirts kissing random Czech men. Were the soldiers celibate simply because Czech women refused them, or was it an institutional thing?

>> No.1339021

>>1338963
Hmm.. Female, American, Lower-Upper-Middle Class or Upper-Middle-Middle Class?

My own:

Antic Hay, Grand Solo For Anton, Lost Horizon

>> No.1339029

>>1339009

20, female, you've paid for most of your own things since you turned 18 and moved out. tried college but it didn't work out. american.

>> No.1339035

Lord of the Rings
Lolita
Guns, Germs and Steel

>> No.1339042

>>1336789
Close. 17 male. Location was off though, I'm from Brazil.

>> No.1339046

>>1339042 here
meant to reply to >>1337093

>> No.1339048

>>1339035

18, male, middle class, american.
the only solace from your loneliness is burying yourself in long, arduous/boring books.

>> No.1339050

Hamlet
War and Peace
Crime and Punishment

>> No.1339059

the faggot book
the gay sex book
the book of 4chan

>> No.1339061

>>1339048
lol, right continent, age off by a decade or two. Or three.
Everything else pretty accurate. OTOH that could describe just about anyone here. :D

>> No.1339069

OK, now let's pretend to be famous people!

The Songlines
The Anarchist Cookbook
How to Win Friends and Influence People

>> No.1339070

>>1339059
12, american, middle-low classe
you mad?

>> No.1339073

>>1339029
Nope. Yep. Yep. Nope. Nope.
You're almost half right, there. I'm 21, British and still a uni student.

>> No.1339076

>>1339069

no.

>> No.1339080

>>1339069
hi there, Julian Assange

>> No.1339103

>>1339070
come at me

>> No.1339135

>>1339020
>On a side note, is it true that Russian soldiers were forced to remain celibate while in the service? I didn't get the part where beautiful Czech women were parading around in miniskirts kissing random Czech men. Were the soldiers celibate simply because Czech women refused them, or was it an institutional thing?
the ussr with all the marxism was an ultimately idealist nation. a soviet soldier caught in the embrace of a czech woman would be a disgrace to the motherland (with all its marvellous educational apparatuses) and himself or his family couldn't have possibly gotten a significant position in soviet bureaucracy. miniskirt trolling was ergo well thought out way to show soviet hypocrisy.
>What, as a boy, are you not fated to understand? Heartbreak? Milan Kundera was a man - I think it's safe to say that men can understand the ideas in the novel as well as women.
meh. its an excuse for whoredom. we are shown a submissive wife of a surgeon as an example a conscient and conscious character. bad example for the girls and solace for the whores imho.
>>1339073
>Nope. Yep.
>Yep.
>Yep.
>Yep.
tits.tits. tits.

>> No.1339139

>>1339135
>tits.tits. tits.
Dick first, darlin'.

>> No.1339142

>>1339139
we are an educated society and all classical art is about tits.

>> No.1339156

The Night Watch trilogy - Sergei Lukyanenko
Tales of Otori - Lian Hearn
Northern Lights - Philip Pullman

>> No.1339158

>>1339142
Haven't noticed all the dicks in classical artworks? Confirmed for uneducated peasant.

>> No.1339160

>>1339135
Who was the whore? Tereza? She was extremely loyal to a womanizer. She was the least whore-like person you can imagine.

Sabina was also not a whore. The men in her life were all long-term soulful relationships, even if the men were married.

Tomas was a hound dog, but eventually found happiness with his wife despite the extreme sacrifices he made for her (imprisonment in an occupied country, the end of his career). It was a love story about the twisted, convoluted routes that love will lead you on towards happiness.

>> No.1339163

>>1339156
17-18, female, maybe British. Upper-middle/Middle-class.

>> No.1339168

>>1339158
lol this guy looks at dicks

>> No.1339170
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1339170

Heart of a Dog Mikhail Bulgakov
Paradise Lost John Milton
The Red Book CG Jung/Birth of Tragedy Nietzsche(tie)

Age 20
Male
American
Lower middle class parents but in the military

I actually like to read a lot of non-fiction. I find that being in military with no television gives you plenty of time to read but availability of the books is hard because I'm overseas. I usually stick with non-fiction because I can re-read non-fiction books more than fiction. Plus I'm planning when leaving the military to major in history to become a teacher, so I find myself constantly reading and rereading history books.

That being said, I can always re-read those four I posted, especially Heart of a Dog, Mikhail Bulgakov is my favorite writer by far.

>> No.1339171

world of warcraft strategy guide
call of duty black ops strategy guide
strategy guide on getting a guide

>> No.1339198

A Dream of Red Mansions by Cao Xueqin
Three Men in a Boat (to say nothing of the dog) by Jerome K. Jerome
Carmina by Catullus

>> No.1339201

I have seen all of the dicks and they were small.

>> No.1339227

american psycho the dice man steppenwolf

>> No.1339238

The Plague by Albert Camus
The Complete Stories by Franz Kafka
Slaughter-House Five by Kurt Vonnegut

>> No.1339425

>>1339171

6, female, hot n' horny for some older man dick. Dear, I'm sorry that your father has stopped having sex with you and so you have to look to 4chan to find an older man. Why don't you try masturbation? Google it, I bet your a quick learner honey. Sweet Dreams.

>> No.1339443

>>1338241
It'sa you, Mario!

>> No.1339460

>>1339238
Me, three years ago?

>> No.1339483

1. Tender is the Night
2. The Count of Monte Cristo
3. Siddharta

>> No.1339486

>>1338241

A hipster.

>> No.1339725

Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky (short story rather than a full book.)
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
Case Studies in Comparative Politics by Patrick H. O'neil et all.

Also, Achewood.

>> No.1339737

trolls
trolling
potato chips

>> No.1339746

>>1337129
Any takers for me?

>> No.1339771

>>1339746
I'm going to guess...

Straight white male, probably college educated, possibly a writing major, or someone who dabbled in writing. Probably not a lit major (they usually look for different things in books.) I'm going to guess somewhere in his twenties? Probably listens to indie rock.

>> No.1339790

>>1339771
Not bad. I am a Lit Major though, but everything else is correct

>> No.1339800

A Scanner Darkly- Phillip K. Dick
The Wall- Jean Paul-Sartre
A Hundred Years of Solitude- Gabriel Garcia Marquez

>> No.1339809

>>1339790
Damn.
I am used to my Lit Major friends listing at least one 1800s Russian novel among their favorites. Or Lolita.

>> No.1339813

>>1337484
Anyone want to try me?

>> No.1339820

شهرياران گمنام
تاریخچهٔ شیر وخورشید
تاریخ مشروطهٔ ایران
32 / upper middle-class / Iran(Azarbaijan)

>> No.1339831

>>1339820
What's it like being educated and whatnot in Iran? And someone who goes on 4chan?

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1339837

>>1339831

I said I live in Iran, not Saudi Arabia.

(retard)

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>>1339831

Ignorance dude... ignorance.

Start studying.

>> No.1339848

Guide to oral sex
Pleasing your man
How to come out of the closet
20 / Gay hipster / Serbia

>> No.1339862

>>1339837
Oh dude, I didn't mean it like "zomg ur so oppressed." I've read enough stuff about and from Iran that I know it's nothing like the theocratic tyranny it's made out to be in the US. I was really just curious about the upper middle class experience there.

>> No.1339868

The Monkey Wrench Gang
The Honourable Schoolboy
The Sand Pebbles

>> No.1339878

>>1339862

Like it is in any other part of the world, lol.

>> No.1339888

Everyone reads horrible books.

>> No.1339891

>>1338904
>Lord of the Flies

Man I love highschool! Yeah! High five!

>> No.1339985

Lolita
Ender's Game
The Picture of Dorian Gray

>> No.1340237

Finnegans Wake
Gravity's Rainbow
À la recherche du temps perdu

19, upper middle class, USA

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1340250

Flowers for Algernon
Silent Spring
The Hitchhiker's guide to the Galaxy

This ought to be interesting....

>> No.1340265

Sound and the Fury (I want Jason Compson dead)

Lolita (I have never loved word games so much in my life)

Y: The Last Man (fucking awesome way of looking at a world ruled by women)

>> No.1340279

>>1340265
18 y American girl, mature for her age, eh, high-middle class

Crime and Punishment
A Midsummer Night's Dream
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

>> No.1340282

so i went to sleep and forgot about this thread and then i saw someone responded to me

>>1338185
>>1338187
haven't read little rock so i can't comment (although I would hope that she meant uneducated rather than stupid - because the notion that a group of people who are chronically undereducated as a result of a racist school system isn't really ready for democratic representation is not that shocking and wholly consistent with her theories), i... honestly can't parse your objection to Eichmann, so all I will say about that is that it's an honest attempt to understand why the Holocaust happened. The Antisemitism thing is something I've seen before, and I would say that she's not saying that Jews caused antisemitism, she's saying that the immigration of poor, obviously foreign Jews led to the rise of xenophobic anti-Semitism - which is not a particularly controversial thing to say, and is not at all justifying anti-Semitism - it's just historically what happened, in the same way that immigration of Chinese and Irish in the United States led to anti-Chinese and anti-Irish sentiment there.

>>1338181
Was raised Catholic, and still consider myself sympathetic to the church - would be Catholic if it were not for that little matter of not believing that God exists. Rest is pretty spot on.

>> No.1340287

Dune
A Song of Ice and Fire (the whole fucking series; they're too good to choose just one)
Heart of Darkness

18/M, Middle Class, U.S. rocky mountains

>> No.1340969

>>1339160
>>1339135
>Who was the whore? Tereza? She was extremely loyal to a womanizer. She was the least whore-like person you can imagine.
who wasn't? dat book was about putting a half-arsed philosophy into the trade of pleasantries and ass for a living. i have contempt for you who tries to put streetwalkers a level lower than aristotelian household slaves and classy courtesans. you are most probably American. i think it was the Soviet invasion of his motherland that rendered Kundera so reactionary.
>>1339820
>Kings anonymous
>Milk History Vkhvrshyd
wat
>Constitutional History
lawyer? war-nerd? bureaucrat?

>> No.1340979

his master's voice & ijon tichy by Stanisław Lem (for closed all mankind's open questions)
all things by Hašek and by Bohumil Hrabal (if it isn't amusing you might as well read nonfics)
the kingdom of god is within you by Leo Tolstoy (for a b-tard repellent name over a sober and serious essay on politics for the disenfranched and meek)

>> No.1340983

eurobump

>> No.1341005

Book of Illusions - Auster
Periodic Table - Levi
America Psycho - Ellis (UMAD!?)

>> No.1341855

Gone with the Wind
Ten little Niggers
Call of Cthulhu